Stories by lermontov

Japan’s silent movie culture is still going

Taking the Plunge: The history and context of Venice’s annual Wedding to the Sea

Ken Follett Says Readers Still Like Epic Books

On the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy

The Bloomsbury Group is back in Vogue

Looking for Virginia Woolf’s Diaries

Prosperity and Precarity in Imperial Russia's Long Nineteenth Century

Butterflies (1948)

A lost Edith Wharton play debuts on stage

In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

The Lawn Is Resting: A Visit to Balzac’s House

Ahead of Time: On Poetry and Mourning

Legends of Lizzie (1933)

This Hummus Holds Up After 800 Years

The life, death, and afterlife of literary fiction

Typesetting Rare Chinese Characters in LATEX (2003) [pdf]

Japanese words of Portuguese origin

Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England’s Must-Have Garden Accessory

Hannie Schaft, resistance fighter during World War II

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, a great Russian writer of the nineteenth century

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